Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 21, 1880, Page 17

“3 "118 CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVHRBER & i, 1880 iG TEEN PAGS. Mt RELIGIOUS. Our Ancestors Spent Sun-. day One Hundred Years Ago. flow essor Tyndall’s as Observance of the Sabbath. ~ He Belleves It Should Not Be Used for Labor or Sacerdotal Rigor. o KIMI. Refuses to Accept the Pres- ent Political Status of the Eter- nal City. ite s Living Death under the Discip- line of the Carmelite Con- vents. General Noter, Personals, Sunday Pleasantries, Services To- Day. : THE WINDS OF GOD. Blow, soft spring wind! Out of the amber West, when down the sky mMpe shadows slowly creep, and Heaven's lamps Speak evening nigh. fan with thy living breath the rousing earth, jodlet thy voice teil to all drowsy hearts ‘Tho year’s new birth. Blow, summer wind! When, after days of drought and sulien heat, Oat of the heaped-up clouds there comes a sound ‘Like echoing feet, ‘While from the distance, borne on breezy wings, ‘Tee rain descending on the thirsty plalo, Its beauty flings. Blow, autumn wind! Out on the yellow woods and stubble lands, Stir the brown brake and scatter thistledown ‘With myriad hands. Sleep after Inbor, after turmoil rest; By strength and weakness, yea, by Mfo and ae tue world is bicst. Blow, winter wind! Out o'er the tumbling sea roll cloud and mist; Boar through bare branches, striking wizard notes AWhere‘er yOu Wet and out of all “Driving the ships: and in and out o: % i God's will—-whO, from the frozen sea, me at His call. Blow, breath divine! ‘Beyond the depths of the uncounted host, Beyond the mystic circle or the sky, Come, Huiy Ghost! Lot hatred, blasphemy, and sin aspire ‘To raise their devil-thrones amid the gloom; Come. quenchless fire! Yea! aud the world is buricd still in night, AndJoug and long thy watchmen warn in vain— Come, living light! THE CREEDLESS FAITH. THE DIFFICULTY ARATING LIFE FROM DOCTRINE. Tue Advance. “ Christianity, not creeds!’ is the motts of Prince Bismarck, whose mottoes are prince- ly. He believes in his own sayings. Are they not then his creed? And_ if, in spite of himself, he must still have his personal “credo,” how can the rest of us do without one? But Bismarck explains. The object of his life is “ the: realization of Christian i d of Christian habits of liv- r all, in the above motto, he is omimon assertion of our day, that * Christianity is not a doctrine but a life? Our difieutty is in separating Life from Doctrine. We cannot, on the one hand, con- ecive how a wan can be “indoctrinated,” that is, taught of the living Spirit the truth of anything, without having that truth enter into his life. The spirit of the true doctrine + is itself a germ of life. To bold a doctrine means to us to live by it, as to love our friends means to love them, and to know God Means an acquaintance with Him. On the other hand, that which has life must embody itself in a ductrine. ‘To love our friends is to say that friendship requires love. as com- munion with our Father declares that we have a Father. Some doctrine, of necessity, belongs to all Jife and sentiment, and they just as necessarily interpret their true doc- trine. It must be a certain kind of creed which offends living Christians. We hear of ‘dead creeds.” There are skeletons of words and husks of propositions which can never more be a part of a living Christianity, or represent its sentiments and good habits. Yet these very skeletons were once clothed with flesh and blood, and these husks protected a vigor- ous growth. How have they lost their ilfe and their connections with actual Christian- ity? Outgrown? Yes; the Christian heart became ripe and solid, and needed no moreto be wrapped in dogmas. Husk after husk fell off or was torn away. ‘The logic of this is alarming. It represents the history of Christianity as a succession of living growths coming one after another to ripeness and laying asiae their husks in like order, There are then no permanent doc- trines. All are likely to tall into the husk state and pass away. “ Inspiration,” ‘* Atone- ment,” “ Resurrection,” “the Being of God,” “Everlasting punishment,” and “ Everlast- ing bliss,” are not they, too, forms of words which we must “outgrow”? Will not the sentiments and habits of Christianity reach 60 far beyond them as to require other and betler doctrines? Shall we not continue to grow as we have done from the bexinning 2nd perhaps end with not needing even the ee “Christianity” to show us what we We fear the reckless and almost contempt- ‘uous handling of the creeds which we wit- ness. Ahmost as much we dislike that povt- ical interpretation of them which | resolves them into tine but evanescent images of the truth. itis almost an equal trifling to pare our creeds down in a council to suit the doc- trinal whims of the time, as if they had no hwre permanence than our political plat- fonns. We can understand how .a resolute mind should always prefer the substance of Ving sentiment and habit to any terms by } which these are expressed. The body will tver be more than the raiment, as Christsaid, ut He Himself was the Word, and through a it and the true life. By know Christ. ‘The true word is and sacred. A creed is a form Qt words. “Its value is in its relation to life. Tobe careless in furming, or changing. or : th foreettine creed: Viviate relation. i Dr. Bushnell said he would subscribe to all le creeds. ‘I’ on beautifully wrote: i breath, and wrought an hands tne creed of creeds Anlovelmess of perfect deeds. Peano would give the “best interpreta- on™ ty all crecds, At last comes the man of And su the W. With tama ca L cuts the Knot by saying, unsianity, not creeds!” But if the sug- Ersticns of Uigse men are true, and we may ig: en trom them, our conclusion is that aot aunity must reéxpress itself entirely retin irue doctrines npon its actual senti- read habits. For which task who is t those who are more than ready. 1 x friend, they “ want no more ous den On the other side are the strenu- ee renders of jot and tittle of cate- pany td Calvinisin. Between are many cane, fat new truth aud many anxious be- . use ald truth turbed. We have little But to alpotroversialists of elther extreme. hones: ell who desire a truth in religion both mae sand firm, We suggest a cautious atti- Sllaken fe best. ‘The old creeds have been haven. ut not yetdisproven. The new ones not be ‘ade many promises which still have need cc demonstrated in logic or fact. We cing demonstration before giving up or let en hew article as a suostantial be- 80 long © @4¥, therefore, hold the old creeds wrowth broved and established until new Sof truth render them in the bright- sht of authorit: 28 Ly: y and ey nee wnnect sary, Our faith need not be disturbed by the assertion or poetry of pecullar men. BISHOP HERZOG. ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE OLD CATHO- : LIC MOVEMENT, 2 ‘The Living Church, Edouard Herzog was born in Schongau, Canton Luzerne, Switzerland; studied un- der the Catholic Theological Faculty of Views on the! Bonn, and especially under Profs. Reinkens and Reusch, with whom he was afterwards to have such close ecclesiastical relations; and, at the tima of the Council of the Vati- can, held the post of Lecturer in Divinity in the University of Luzerne. When, on the 19th of February, 1871, Pfar- rer Eeli, of Luzerne, uttered the first public Protest in Switzerland against the Vatican decrees, Prof. Herzog had been publishing, for a short time, a weekly paper which claimed to defend the Old Catholic teaching. He was cited to appear before Dr. Winkler, the Commissary Bishop of Lachat; bnt, al- though he frankly avowed his convictions, no offictal notice was at the time taken of it, the Bishop himself being engaged in a con- test with the civil authorities of the Canons; and ibs Commissary, judging from his sub- sequent cours eing rath ispose agree with the Profesor Tae one s The Swiss anti-Vatican movement, as such, Was inaugurated by a large meeting of Swiss Catholic laity, held at Soleure, in April, 1871, and again in Sentember fallow- ing. Atthis gathering a central committee was appointed, of which the eminent Swiss statesinan “Landaminann Keller was the Chairman.—the saine who soon afterward was one of the Vice-Presidents of the Munich Congress of that month. In. the following summer, Prof. Herzo published a letter to Bishop Lachat, openly refusing to accept the Vatican decrees; and |+ he was at once selected by his old friends at Bonn to take charge of the Old .Catholic parish at Crefeld,in Prussia, from which place he attended the Congress of Cologne, and saw and heard the late Bishop of Mary- land, as well as the English Bishops there present. Late in 1872, Prof. Reinkens visited Switzer- land; and, addressing several large meetings, eshecially: one of some 3,000 persons in tbe parish church at Olten, gave now life and impulse to the movement there. “In June, 1883, he was elected first Old Catholic Bishop for Germany, and being consecrated in Au- gust, sent Pfarrer Herzog to take charge at Olien, from which time he became the lead- ing, theological influence in the inchoate Swiss Church. About the same time, a sec- ond Conference of some two hundred and fifty persons, held at Olten, intrusted to Pfarrer Herzog and Landammann Keller the duty of drawing up a project. of organiza- tion for the Swiss Old Catholics. , In September, these both attended the Congress of Constance, at which the organ- Jeation of the German Old Catholics was per- tected. In October, 3874, the Berne Government founded the Old Catholic Faculty in the University of that city, of which Pfarrer Herzog was appointed the head; at Easter, » he took the Jeading part in 2 most important gathering and service at St. Gall, and in September he attended the second Conference of Bonn. The proposed constitution of this Swiss Church was still quite radical in some re- spects, and the Episcopate was placed in an uncatholic subjection to lay di llerzoz. being approached with reference to ine Bishopric, refused ever to consider it under n circumstances. During the year, ; the constitution was materially ied in this respect, and at the second Synod, held at Olten, in June, 1876, 167 deputies being ix present (out of sixt riests and 140) yinen chosen to take pat Pfarrer Her was elected. on the f ballot, receiving 117 He at ti earnestly refused the office; but such -was the pressure brought to bear upon him, “not only by members of the Synod, but by telegraph from other parts of Switzerland, and from Germany, that he was. constrained to yield and accept. 1b is also especially to be noted that this same Synod passed resolutions looking forward to future union with the Greek. and Anglican churches. ‘The Abbé Michaud, who was at this time in Geneva, always labored to secure this union, in the Oriental rather than in the Occidental direction; but the endeavor of Pfarrer llerzog was ever the precise reverse to this. Ms ‘The Christian Catholic Bishop for Switzer- Jand was consecrated at Reinfelden, Canton of Aargau, in_ September, 1876, by Bishop Kens, of Germany: and published his storal Letter to the Chureh on the same day. lle was in Sey ber formally excom- municated by the Swiss Bishups of the Ro- bedience: and, in December, the Pove ished a Bull ‘against him, virtually acknowledging: the validity of his consecration in the very terins in which he professed to depose him. ‘To both of these documents Bishop Herzog published learned. and able replies. — Th nod which met in 1877 declared the administration of the Holy Communion in both kind adinissible and Catholic; and the Bishop, in his pastoral of Dec. 19, 1878, authorized it in the Swiss Chureh. In the year 1877, also, Bishop HWerzog_was present in London during the Second Lamn- beth Conference, and at the Farnham Co: ference; theSynod of Soleure, June 5,1! passed resolutions in response the ac! of these Conferences, formally declaring that the Swiss Chureh “in essential things stands on the same Christian and Catholic grounds as the Anglo-American Chureb.” On the 10th ofthe following August these resolutions took practical effect. At Divine service in the Cathedral of Berne on that d: i Reinkens. Bishop Herzog, and Bishop. terill, of Edinburg, with the Pére Hyacinthe, united in the Eucharistic Liturgy and in the Holy Communion. The English hymn, “The Church’s One Foundation,” was sung; the French sermon was preached by the Pere yacinthe from the verse of the 1d Psalm; and Bishop Reinkens_ proceeding in the German Consecration, the others kneel- ingside by side, receiving the Sacrament trom his hands; after which the Bishop, of Edinburg took the cup and ministered it with the words of the English service. The sequel to this service is the present visit of Bishop Herzog to this country. TITE COLONIAL SABBATH. HOW OUR ANCESTORS SPENT SUNDAY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Ciicaco, Nov. 1%—The patriotic and con- scientions citizen who, with this morning’s Tuivene, Iusuriates over hot rolls and cof- fee, and, possibly, Boston brown bread and baked beans (the alliteration may be par- | doned since even subline pocts have stooped thus low), may reasonably be indulging in several subjects of thought. ‘The recent highly flexible state of the weather, disas- trous conflagrations and Joss of life, the last despairing echoes of a defeated party, or the wide and encouraging prospeets gradually opening to our country at large are all topics suggested by the times. If he is something ofa philosopher, and withal fond of political economy, and inclined to trace effects back to causes or occ; ns,—in other words, toa remote ancestry.—he will have arrived by an easy process at the subject of this sketch. A thoroughbred American points with pride to the people who, starting on the oriental side of onr country, have ever since been moving westward, keeping step with civilization. “These notions, like those of space and time, may, with us, be called in- witive. ri - % Opposit him at the table, sipping her coffee, is sitting Miss MeFlimsey. Miss MeFlimsey is a generalization of all the characteristics which constitute the young lady of the periud, She iso has her thoughts, very. iikely, upon the same subjects. | She has already, during the past wee! perished with the cold” three times; is_ fearfully glad that Hancock didn’t zet elected”; and thinks that “Barnum is too awfully horrid: for anything.” But she doesn’t care much about causes or occasions. Effects are more tangible; their immediate presence renders -them physically enjoyable, She doesn’t care to trace the parentage of Republican liberty. If she could be enticed backward a century anda half, and should find a remote ances- tor,—a distant grandmother, perhaps.—her first question would doubtless be: “Are you going to church today, and what ure you going to wear 7 Bus Miss McFlimsey’s grandmother is not wiven to sueh trivial thoughts. Her Sabbath began the night before when the sun went down. All levity ceased then. In fact such. words as letity, jollity, leisure, ete., must have oc- cupied much the same position then as the techuical expressions in science and art ao in our own day. Moreover, if they were used at allit was probably as reproachtul epithets. It is certainly safe to alfirm that elaborate Sun- day costumes had not yet come into fashion. Desire, Retief, and little Faith, whose names cannot be sentimentally pe verted, sit guiet- ly reading King James’ yersion of the Bible, & or studying the Westminster catechism, Or, perhaps, Desire, the eldest daughter, is en- voring to instill into the minds of Jede- and Amos that “Sin is any waut of con- forinity unto, or transzression of, the law of God.” Butthe stanch litle Puritans can- not so. far resist the lusts of the flesh as not ‘to think of the near approach of Thanksgiving; and the luxury, relative to be sure, attendant thereon, reuders ail longing for spiritual food an casy prey to the physi cal desires. ‘Tne family group, arranged in their “sad garments,” to borrow trom Haw- thorne, presents a dingy Appexrance. Not hat their attire is “ rusiy,? “seedy,” or the but the peculiar color leaves this impres- pie and warm colors were held’ in utter abbor- r Indeed, one this idea from the * Scarlet Letter,” which, with its bright col- or, was a symbol of shame. A peculiarity in the dress of the head of the family was that his linen, if he wore any, was not “done up.” Starched linen was considered a_ deti-~ ance of Providence; and it is recorded in the chronicles of the Puritans that a good lady, mistaking the neck-handkerchief of her hus~ ind for one of the him to take it off if he wished to avoid the- wrath of Leaven, According to | their recognized creed, they receeded = to church slowly, but not leisurely,—iu a solemn and probably processional manner, They entered the church with grave and sccmly aspect. Jeremiah, Solomon, and Abijah did not Joiter on the steps or brace themselves against the railing to cast admir- ing glances at Kuth, Naomi, and Aseneth. For the tithingman, that essential instru- ment to stalwart Church government, was eilant, dispensing a rebuke here, a nt ment there, Ww! ich were received with dumb meekness as if sent from Heaven. But it was during service that the tithingman was most despotic. Did there chance to be a careless worshiper whose thoughts were fol- lowing his eyes, who dared to conmunicate by whisper! or othersigns, who by gazing, sleeping, or “other indecent belavior” vio- lated the church ordinance, he was prompt to bring confusion and terror. Years before there had been in Amsterdam a Deaconess, or Mother in Israel, as she was called, who served in much the same capacity. 1t is said that she sat conveniently in the chureh and caused much terror with her little switeh among the children. But these officials were not the only sources of discipline, ‘Therein the corner sits Mr. Peleg Carver, who last week was publicly scourged for non-attend- ance upon Sabbath worship. Just in front of him is Miss Jemima Pym who has fit been liberated from a month of hard fubor and “coarse diet” for rebellious carriage toward her mistress, and far up to the. front sits Jonah Livermore, who also has been pub- liely corrected for-trying to inveigle the af- fections of Mr. Hoockins’ daugh If all this seems inexedible to any one let him read the chronicles of the Pilgrims. Here is an instance: For some offense, swearing ver- haps, ‘ Robert J ig to be thorouchly scourged, kept in the House of Correction two wecks, then again to be whipped and to appear at every quarter court to be whipped until he reform.” We read of people in Russia who are forced to take wives they do. not want. This seems to be the next thing if not artistic, was certainly ‘There was a predominance of the nasal tone, reinforced by a harsh accom paniment of wind and stringed Instruments. Often the minister read the psalm line by line, the choir and congrey: responding to this dictation ‘as musically a3 possible. ‘The following shows that ideas of time and harmony were entirely subjected to the spiritual effeet of the words: “In singing the voice should be tunably ordered and gravely; the chief thing should be to sing with the understanding and with grace inthe heart.” Many who read this will recollect the familiar liymn beginning, “Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love,’ the last two lines of onv of the stanzas being: No midnight shade, no clouded sun, Bur sucred, high, eternal noon. It is said that in colonial days a clergyman. preached so long and fervently on a hot ust afternvon as to weary his audience, padie of greatendurance Not content with who were usually c: the Sabbath above was to be never-ending, and also that the sun would shine with daz- ailing brilliancy in the uncleuded sky, and that there would be perpetual suinmer in addition to the evertasting Sabbath. This was quite too much forthe jaded audience, who fancied that this interpretation’ of the blissful abode was far too similar to their ideas of other regions. Small children who did not very willingly devote na seventh portion of their time to religious pursuits looked upon this picture as being quite as terrible as that of the burning jake: and, after the service, some confidentially expressed their preferen szoud being gave rise to many for the Sabbath itical themes as_ topics one pastor in Tse. | For stan speaking of Lord North, Tee Repuoli ji sinile to slavish adulation paid. by Britons to one who has brought their nation to the brink of ruin.” Another, in speaking of the advantages already (1780) derived from the war, sa “We are making here an open asylum for the oppressed of every nation, We are fighting the cause of the world.” It is somewhat in accordance with the charac- ter of the Puritans that they seldom became dissatisfied witha clergyman without just grounds, Without doubt there were some complaints of a trifling nature which resulted in nothing. Some ladies, L believe, belong- ing to. a Connecticut church, spoke reproach- fully ofa pastor’s wife for wearing “ cork shoes for her feet, and whalebone in the bodice and sleevesof her gown.” One might almost think to-day that the good lady was trying to do penance for some seeret sin. Returning once more to our friends whom we left rather unceremoniously, we find that church service is over until, afternoon, and that they are walking about in the cemetery, or rather graveyard, as they commonly spoke of it, The mournful willow, of course, was planted in every ay ble spot. Even dawn to the present. day a few ladies meditatively inclined-are fond of representing this tree on cardboard and present it as 2 souvenir to their thoughtless friends, There is here a yery curious inscription, which explains it- self: “Here lies buried the body of Rabbi Judah Monis, M. ate Hebrew instructor at Harvard College, in Cambridge, in which office he continued forty years. . He was hy birth and religion aJew, bnt embraced the ristian faith, and was publicly baptize 722, and departed this life April 25, 1t64, aged Sl years 2 months and 21 days. 1. & A native branch of Jacob see, ‘Which once from off its olive broke; Regrafted from the living tree, 7 at —l. Romana, xett., 24. Of the reviving sap purtook. It. From teeming Zion's fertile womb, —Is., izviit., 8. As dewy drops in carly morn, —P 8.4 OLe 3. Or rising bodies from the tomh, At once be Isracl’s nation born.” —John, xrrvi., 29, The stones are mostly slate-colored, and alt have, in addition to the inscription, a picture of the willow and a hideous face, which is probably intended for an_ angel, though more appropriate to an evil. spirit. A stone of a child four months old bears the inscription, * Honor Thy Father and: Thy [ Mother.” Were not the circumstances too ridiculous, its death would seem to imply a judgment for violation of the commanil. ‘The most monstrous part of the Sabbath must have been after church, when no walk- ing in the fields was permitted. The older members of a family studied the Bible or the catechism, conversed with regard to the sermon, or read in the standard religious books of that time. Some of these had yery tiul For instance, “Hooks and ‘or Believers’ Breeches,” “Crumbs of Confort fer Chickens of the Covenant,7— this Jast showing the strong taste for allit- eration. Rules of conduct were prescribed for the remainder of the day. The-time, as has been -intimated, was to be spent in reading, medi- tation, repetition of sermons, visitin: sick, rel i y the ving the poor, ete. Trifling sins of ion were forbidden, with penalties isobedience. A man could not his wife on Sunday; neither could he shave without paying a fine of three shillings, or, in lieu of that, “forty stripes save one.”? On week days also there were some limits to freedom of action. There was a law that no person should entertain or give habita- tion to any man save by Jeave of the town, ‘The person who indulged in an oath had the satisfaction of knowing that his oath was publicly recorded on his hat. Spch a penalty nowadays would necessitate ‘a rettrn to those low-crowned apparently sinall hats, but, which show a large exterior on being “ pilled out.” As a penalty for lying, the offender stood with his tonguein a split stick until the going down of the sun, - There was also a law against the making of inince pies. Why, it ts hard to imagine, unless Macaulay has struck the right idea when he says “ the It Lam rightly informed, the bright. oluted collars, implored”! Puritans hated bear-baiting not Dbeeause It gave pain tothe bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” Of course all these Jaws and penalties, these customs and observances, were notin vogue at the same time. It would be hard to give a graphic ac- count of any short and Jimited period. It fs enough that Miss McFlimsey’s ancestors sed through more or less of this experi- e, and indeed in the earlier Colonial days imperiled their lives by hunger and cold, that she and all of us might be more happily sit- uated. But howean we, who are so well clothed and so well fed, be expected to dwell upon these subjects which have long ago passed into history? It is impossible. We are too selfish. . * SUNDAY OBSERVANCES. YIEWS OF PROF. TYNDALL. Nineteenth Century. It was remarked by Martin Luther that Jesus broke the Sabbath deliberately, and even ostentatiously. for & purpose. He walked the fields; He plucked, shelled, and ate the corn; Le treated the sick, and Lis spirit may be detected in the alleged imposi- tion upon the restored cripple of the labor of carrying His bed onthe Sabbath day. He crowned Hisprotest againsta sterileformalism by the enunciation of a principle which ap- plies to us to-day as much as to the world in the time of Christ,—‘“t The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” Though the Jews, to their detriment, kept themseivesas a nation intellectually isolated, the minds of individuals were frequently colored by Greek thought and culture. The learned and celebrated Philo, who was con- temporary with Josephus, was thus in- fluenced. Philo expanded the uscs of the seventh day by including in its proper ob- servance studies which might be called secular. ‘Moreover,” hesays, “the seventh day is also an example from which you may learn the propriety of studying philosophy. ‘As on that day it is said God beheld the works that He had made, so you also may yourself contemplate the works of nature.” Permission to do, this is exactly what the members of the Sunday Society humbly claim. The Jew, Philo, woul4 grant them this permission, but our straiter Christians will not. Where shall we find such samples of those works of nature which Philo commended to the Sunday contemp tion of his countrymen as in the British Museum? Within those walls we have, as it were, epochs disentombed—ages of divine energy illustrated. But theeflicient authori- ties—among whom 1 would include a short- sighted portion of the public—resolutely close the doors, and exclude from the con- templation of these things the multitude who have only Sunday to devote to them. Taking them on their own ground, we ask, are the autborities logical in doing so? ‘Do they whdNhus stand between them and us really believe those treasures to be the- work of God? Do they or do they. not hold, with Paul, that “the eternal power and Godhead”? may be clearly seen from “the things that are made”? If they do—and they dare not aflirm that they do not—I fear that Pani, In his customary language, would pronounce their conduct to be “without exeuse.” With regard to the time when the obliga- tion to keep the Sabbath was imposed, and the reasons for its Imposition, there are grave differences of opinion between Jearned and pious men. Some uftirm that it was insti- tuted at the Creation in remembrance of the rest of God. Others allege that it was im- posed after the departure of the Israclit from Tavpt, and in memory of that de: ure. The Bible countenances both inter: tations. In Exodus we find the origin ofthe Sabbath described with unmistakable clear- ness, thus: “ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore ule Lord blessed the seventh day, and hal- luwed it’? In Deuteronomy this reason is suppressed and another is assigned. Israel els a servant in Egypt, God, it is stated, brought them out of it through a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm. “Therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sab- bath day.” After repeating the ‘fen Com- mandmints, and assigning the foregoing origin to the Sabbath, the writer in Deuter- onomy proceeds thus: “These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midstof the fire, of the cloud, and the thick darkness, with 2 loud yoice; and He added no more.”.. But in Exodus God not only added more, but some- thing entirely diferent, This has beena diffigulty with commentators,—not formid- able, if the Bible be treated as any other ancient book, but extremely formidable on the theory of plenary inspiration: I remem~- ber in the days of my youth being shocked ana perplexed by an admission made by Bishop Watson in his celebrated Apology for tho Bible,” written inanswer to Tom Paine. “You have,” says the Bishop, “disclosed afew weeds which good men would have covered up from view.” ‘That there were “weeds” in the Bible requiring to be kept out of sight was to ine, at that time, a new revelation. I take little pleasure in dwelling upon the er- rors and blemishes of a book rendered ven- ishable associations. But when that book is wrested to our detriment, when its passages areinvoked to justify the imposition of a yoke, irksome ause. unnatural, we are driven in self-defense to be critical. In self- bath, one of which makes it a purely Jewish institution, while the other, unless regarded asamere myth and figure, is in violent an- tagonism to the facts of geology. With regard to the alleged “proofs” that Sunday was introdueed as a substitute for ing upon Christians as their Sabbath was upon the Jews, I can only say that those which Ihave seen are of the flimsiest and vaguest character. “If,” says Milton, ‘fon the plea of adivine command, they impose upon us the observances of a particular day, how do they presume, without the authority day in its place?” Outside the bounds of theology, no one could think of applying the term “proofs ” to the evidence adduced for the change; and yet on this pivot it has been allesed, turns the eternal fate of human erable to me by intrinsic wisdom and imper, defense, therefore, we plead these two dis- cordant accounts of the origin of the Sab- Saturday, and that its observance is as bind- ofa divine command, to substitute another h were successively consummated to the etriment of the Apostolic See. acts by whieh the Pontiff remained manifestly de- spoiled of all freedom and independence. Ouly a few weeks have passed since, beneath our very eyes, they celebrated with clamor- ous rejoicing the anniversary of the violent occupation of Rome, that ever sorrowful day for us, which obliged the Pontiff to shut himself within the narrow circuit of these walls. What shall we say regarding the occupation of churches in Rome, which, closed to public worship, are des- tined to public uses, the property and dominion of the ecclesiastical authort- ties in them not only being contested, but even the means of defending their rights at law heing denied? What shall we say re- farding the door left open to impiety and heresy in this City of Rome, our see and the centre of Catholicism, without its being possible for us to oppose any suflicient and efficacious remedy? And, further, when, impelled by Jove for the Roman people, con- fided to our special eare, we have endeavored, at sacrifices beyond our resources, to coun- terpoise against the Protestant schools, perilous to the faith, other schools whielt Would give parents every security for the Christian education of ‘their children, we could not do so by employing the. Pontificial authority, but solely by using those means which are conceded to any private person whomsoeyer, From our words youcan fully understand, beloved schildren, and hard is the condition in which the Roman Pontiff has been placed by the revolution, and how vaiu are the flattering hopes of those who talk of the possibility of its being accepted on our part. Mindful always of our duties, and knowing what is required for the xood of the Churen and the dignity the Roman Pontificate, we shall never acquiesce in the present condition of-things, nor shall we cease, as we have néver yet ceased, from calling for the restitution of-all which by fraud and deceit has been taken from the Avostolic See, For the rest, we shall wait with confidence and tranquillity until God, in whose hands fs our cause, me tures for the Church that day on which He render justice to her rights. Meanwhile we turn, to you, belaved- sons, who have pre- served due fidelity to us and to the Holy See, with special affection, and we exhort you to keep with, constancy to the honorable course which you have followed. To contirm you in these sentiments, and as 8 pledge of our especial good will, we impart with all our heart to you here present and to, your fami- lies the Apostolic blessing.” — The principal persons present were then admitt the foot and hand of his Holiness, who ad- slresscdt words of kindness and consolation vo each. CARMELITE NUNS. THE RIGORS OF IIFE IN THER CONVENTS— A LIVING DEATH. ‘The most aristocratic names of Europe are to be found in the Carmelite convents. A daughter of the lute sister of the present Duke of Norfolk is a Carmelite, In the Con- vent of the Rued’Enfer. The Carmelites never have more than twenty “mothers” in anyone convent in France. TheFrench clvil law interdicts a larger number in any con- vent. No Carmelite is admitted to the con- ventin Paris unless she brings $5,000 with her. The less rich go to provincial con- vents, to Gravigny, for instance, where the “mothers” make ecclesiastical ornaments, vestments, sacred waters for the communion table, and the like. St. Theresa forbids her converts from acquiring wealth. Every cent they have above actual expenses goes for alms. In Paris, the convents in Ave- nue de Messine ‘and Rue d’Eufer support 1,000 families. The Carmelites have a privi- lege granted them by Rome—the Pope him- self cannot absolve their “solemn vows.” When the bell rings the “mothers” 70 one by one down the long passages. As they walk, their wooden shoes produce at a distance the noise of thick hailstones on roofs. At the door of the choir are placed in line woolen- slippers, just as they are at some mosque’s door. Here the mothers” take off theirsan- dals and put on slippers. “The chapel is high, pitched. The choir contains twenty false stalls; that is, stalls without seats. "There is an immense colored crucifix:(sou- yenir of St. Theresa’s native Iand—Spain) on the white, naked walls. Night as well as day, at all hours, there is alwaysa “mother” of.watch—God’s sentinel. She is wrapped in a large, white woolen cloak. with a long train. She kneels there motionless as a stone statue seen in prayer on olden tombs. When her wateh is ended she rises, gives the long train the kick with which tragic actresses have made us familiar, and disappears. ‘The reading of the breviary begins. It is the priests’ breviary. They recite it slowly. A riest recites it in an hour or an hour and a half. A Carmelite is five hours reading it. ‘A great many Carmelites learn Latin. They wish to understand the meaning of the words which they recite day and night. At a signal of the Prioress they lean back on: their heels. Oceastonally the reading of the breviary is’ interrupted. There is silence. It" is the moment of eestavy in infinity, They cat maigre all the year. Their Lent begins on the Lith of September. It lasts seven, months, during which fasting; no eggs, no fish, no seasoning but salt and water. A Carmelite’s cell con- tains several shelves. On one are two large brushes,—the hardest one of them is for the hair, They have no comb because they have no long ir. A wooden bed with high edges. ‘There are two large itchors, a vial of cologne-water, sonp, ete. ‘The chapel it- self is never warmed. They, during winter, sleep with their clothes on, as Arabs do. They undress in sum@er when they go to bed. Inthe cell the solitary prayer is the most ardent; the “mother” ‘there, is, as it were, face to face with the burning bush. Each “mother,” kneeling in her cell, strikes her bared shoulders with “a discipline.” which is a cat-o’-tivetails. 1t may easily be imagined there is nothing very crue! in all this, for a woman’s han eannot violently lash’ her own body. Itisa mere syinbol of enitence. Itisamere tradition, Thereare Bisciplinary meetings When one or more inisereres are sung. A good inane “moth- ers?’ are not killed by this life. Neverthe- Jess it is not well to fall ill in a Carmelite tok souls. Were such a doctrine not ac- | convent. ‘The pi an is called only at tial it would be incredible. It has petite trea ‘The. prioress precedes: been truly said that the man who | him. She is hidden from head: to foot accepts it sinks, in doing so, to the lowest | py a long, thick black veil and holds depth of Atheism. Itis perfectly reasona- | q bell in her hands,-which she rings as ble for a religious community to sct apart one day in seven for rest and devotion. Most of those who abject to the Judaic. observ- ance of the Sabbath recognize not only the wisdoin but the necessity of some such in- stitution, not on the-eround of Divine edict, but of common sense. They contend, how- ever, that it ought to beas far as possible a day of cheerful renovation both of body and spirit, and not a day of penal gloom. ‘There is nothing that I should nd more strenuousiy than the conversion of the first day of the week into,a common working day. Quite as strenuously, however, should L op- pose its being employed as a day for the ex- ercise of. sacerdotal rigor. THE VATICAN. LEO XI. ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE PONTIFICATE. On Sunday, Oct. 24, the great Sala Ducale in the Vatican was the scene of a remarkable gathering. All the civil officials employed by the Pontificial Government before the in- vasion of Rome and who refused the oath of allegiance to the present régiine were come to lay-at the feet of Pope Lco X11. the as- surance of their fidelity. All were there ex- cept those who were absent from Rome er were otherwise absolutely prevented from attendiug. The vast hall was quite full, a narrow passage only being kept open in the middle by the Swiss Guards. His Holiness having taken his place on the throne, an of- ficial of the Ministry of Commerce and Pub- lic Works was adinitted to do homage in the name of the rest and read a short address, after which the Holy Father replied: “Great is the consolation, must beloved sons, which we derive from your presence here and from the numerous attendance, which is a proof of your fidelity and attachment to our person and to the Apostolic See. And so great a disturbance of men’s minds. and the desertion of many—in times in which the couraze of individual duty is so little felt,-your constancy is not only a good action, butis’a splendid exam- ple of honorable principle, of which our aze stands in great need. The condition of the times is altogether changed, and you know, beloved sons, in consequence of what de- plorable deeds the former days have been succeeded by others which are very evil. The design of Divine Providence, which had assigned to the Roman Pontiff a temporal dominion in order that he might enjoy se- cure liberty and true independence in the exercise of his supreme réligious power, was broken by the series of acts of yiclence she govs. The vhysician sees here and there shadows which, warned by the bell, flee him, "The priest bearing the viaticun is received with the same ceremonial. ‘The Bishop of the Diocese alone has the right to see a Carmelite’s face. The priest ioust be accompanied bya ehorister less than it years old. The chorister carries holy water. Vhen a “mother ? is dying, the other * ma- thers? stand around her, and alternate the niost joyful verses of the Bible with those: sombre verses which relieve the over- fraught heart as much as so! Each * ni ther” in turn throws holy water on the dy- ing, as if she were already a corpse. ‘Their confessional is strange. ‘The priest sees his penitent through two iron grati parated bya wide intervening space. ‘The confes- sion is necessarily in aloud tone. The parlor, where a “nother” receives her mo- isters, and brothers under 11 years old, wise has a double iron grating. A Jerse If-hour sand-glass is put In front ot the mother.” When the visitors are the afore- d kindred, black veil is hung on the iron grating, and a “mother” is present who hears every word sad. She called the “Guardian Angel.” When a “mother jes, the surviving “mothers” carry the the door of the funeral-vault, There Auinan takes it and places Tt is the first and the Carmelite “* mo- alte coitin to 0 they abandon it. it in its last resting-place. last time a man touches ther” so nearly. GENERAL NOTES. ~ ‘The Methodists have four mission schools in New Mexico, and will soon have churches in Santa Fé and Albuqueraue. ’ ‘The Methodist have resolved to establish a missionary station in Western China. Sr. John F. Goucher, a wealthy layman of Bal- timore, assumes the expense. In 179 there were 1,260 Baptists of all shades in Pennsylvania, one Hanis? to Hee ation. Now there are 64, See Eee ne t tw every 66 of the popula- tion. ‘A Congregational church has been organ- ized in Albuquerque, N. ML, by the Rev. J. M. Ashley, who has heen engaged in mis- sinnary labor in the ‘Territory for the past six months. aieredslastsn le of Tapitenea (Gilbert Islands) under Pruisions jteacling, have, gathered and burned al eir weapons. also abolished the liquor traftic and passed stringent Sunday laws. x ey . Isaac Davis, of Worcester, Mass., Peon given $5,000 to the ‘American Baptist Missionary Union. and the same ow difficult | Amount to the Southern Bavthyt Convention, the money to be invested by the Board, and the income to‘be expended annually in the prosecution of foreign missions. The Scotch Presbyterians are in a state of commotion over the leresy of some of the sermons in a recently-published volume. Dr. Tory, of Roseneath, is under the ban for be- ing a contributor to the volume. A London paper states that the sale-of the Penny Testament, the cheapest edition ever published, has already reached nearly.400.000, and that the publisher, Mr. Elliot Stock, con- fidently expects that 1,000,000 copies will be disseminated in the course of twelve months. ‘There will be Christian meetings at Union Park Hall, 517 West Madison street, on Thanksgiving and following days as foltéws: Thursday, Nov. 25, at 10:30. a.m. for prayer and ministering God's ‘Word, at 3 p.m. suune service, al oS Gospel; Friday, prayer and ministering sane service, at 7:45 p.m, for preaching the Gospel; Saturday, Nov. 27, at 10:30 a.m. for prayer and ministering the Word, at 3 p.m. sane service. at 7:45 p.m. for preaching the Gospel; Lord’s Day, Nov. 88, at 10:30 a. m. for breaking bread, at 2p. m. for the Bible class, a3 p. m. for ministering the Word, at 45 for preaching the Gospel. Mr. W.-O. Lattimore, who has so success- fully conducted the Gospel Temperance mneet- ings at Farwell Halli for severa! years past, having left the citv, the gentlemen who have been his most prominent supporters propose to hold Gospel meetings, three or four nights in the week, during the winter, in the Cal Board Room, in the Board of Trade alley. if the roum can be progured for that purpose, as they have reason to Relieve it can. These meetings will be condueted bya different person every evening, and wil! be consolidat- ed with the Sunday meetings instituted there last Sunday. The usual Sunday meetings will be held in the Call-Board Room to-day, pat a. and 7:30 poms the moras : ct being ‘* Peace,” and the evening subjec' a ‘Prayers? ° pee Supurintendent Lowry, of the Methodist Mission in China, writes recently: “ I have returned from a trip to Kitchun, and am happy to report the successful settlement of our chapel difficulty in that elty. ‘The baser people had placarded the streets, threatening death to any who should sell us land. They had, also, intimidated a mandarin to hold thein in countenance, buta magistrate higher, in authority gave him all others to.un- derstand that neither the missionaries nor the native Christians were to be interfered with; and he himself went with us in person, and assisted us inthe selection of a proper site, ete. He further gave notice that any one Wishing to join our Church was at perfect liberty to do so, threatening with severe chastisement any one who should try to ereate a disturbance.” In his charge recently the Archbishop of Armagh said, concerning the Disestablished Chureh, that during the last ten years nearly one-half the clergy who occupied benefices at the ume of disestablisihment had disap- peared from among them—some retiring from. ge and infirmity, some removing to other dioceses, and others having, gone to England, Of course, those whi went away had carried their comtutation capital with them. Owing to these causes, it would become necessary to fall. back upon the practice of former times, and place more than one parish under the care of one minister. The candidates now presenting themselves for ordination were generally below the required standard of editcation. Even the qualification of a collegiate degree had sometimes to be dis- pensed with. There was such a dead-level of uniformity in the value of their benefices that there wa3 little prospect of promotion, and noting to attract the rising talent of the country. ML Engene Revcillaud, the brilliant French orator and writer, will speak three times to- day.on behalf of the Protestant Church in France. ‘The Rev. G. 'T. Dodds, son-in-law of the Rev. Horatins Bonar, will act as in- terpreter. Services are arranged as follows: Second. Presbyterian Church, 10:30 a. m.; New England Congregational, 3:30 p. m.; ‘Third Presbyterian, 7:30 p. m. The Christian Union says: Among the most notable of the addresses (at the meeting of the American Board at Lowell), 2 fifteen minutes’ address from M. Revell- laud, of whom the Christian Union gave its readers some account last week M. Reveillaud ig x man of middle hight, jet ..ack har, fine presence, clear and powerful voice, and that something -indescribable whicn we call mag- netism. Every eye was fixed on bim the mo- ment he wns introduced, and every ear was at- .tentive to hear him, though he spoke: tn a lan- gnage unknown to most of bis auditors. Hewas iraushttea by, Mr. Dodds. and quite apart from the moral and spiritual fervor of the man, and the rhetorical beauty of his compact sentences, there was a singulur fasciuation in this double oratory. ‘The translation was 80 apt and bappy, the spirit of the French was given so admirnbiy und iu so elegunt an English, that I think safo to say that a more extraordinary piece of ex- Tempore translation was nover heard. The Frenchman carried the house by storm, and some of his epigrammatic sentences will be car- ried away a3 memorials of all who heard: bim. For example: “The Frenchman is a born Prot- estant.” : A PEOPLE WITHOUT PRIESTS. Palt Malt Gazette, “To understand the consequences of the Kulturkampf in Germany,” writes a corre- spondent, You ought to visit the country districts of the Rhine provinces. It was thus that, spending a few days at Canzem, on the shores of the Sarr, near Treves, I found in the environs more than half of the villages without priests. When a curé dies his place is not filled, because the Bishop will not submit to the Falk laws, and particularly because he protests against signifying the appointment of anew curé to the Govern- ment. The curés that are left go from place to place in turn to say mass in neighboring churehes. The inhabitants of the villages that are deprived of their priesis attend, on these occasions, in overflowing crowds. ‘The curé gives out where mass will be said on the following Sunday. You might imagine your- self carried back tothe French Revolution and 1793, More than half of the churches and the priests’ houses are shut up. The seminaries no longer train young Levites, who ure considered admissible; and inasmuch, moreover, as any seminaries are closed, the moment is not very far off, if the Kulturkanrp£ roves on, when every village will find itself deprived of ecclesiastics. What is curious is that while the population remains faithtal tv the Chureh, they als» remain entirely sub- inissive to the authority of the Government. ‘They respect alike the Pope and the Empe- ror. The truth is that military service has prodigionsly developed the sentiment, of passive obedience. But Prince Bismatck, who beli that religion is one of the prin- cipal bases of the social order, hesitates at the notion of producing a state of things in whieh all religious services shall have disap- eared from the Catholic provinces. Hence his endeavors to come to an understanding with the Vatican.” PERSONALS. Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, has forbidden the use of “credence tables” in the Episeo- pal churches in his diocese. ‘The Rev. G. K. Dunlop, Missionary Bishop- elect of New Mexico and Arizona, will be consecrated in St. Louis on the 3ist. Mr. Spurgeon, according to the English religious papers, is steadily but quietly fail- ing from the overwork of over a quarter of a century. Henry A. Stebbins, for many years editor of the Saints’ Herald, the organ of the Monogamic Mormons, has resigned, in order to go into other business at Lamoni, Ia, The Rt. Rev. D. Rawle, Bishop of Trini- dad, fainted away on the occasion of his con- seeration in London, some three weeks azo. ‘The event created a commotion in thechurch. The object of Father Gavazzi’s third visit to this country is tomake known the present condition and needs of the Church to whose establishment and progress he has devoted the maturest years of his eventful life. The really great men are few in this day who have devoted themselves with such entire self-sacrifice to the service of religion. , The Rex. W. J. Knox-Little, M. a., Rector of St. Albans, Manchester, ‘Eng. has re- eeived an invitation from the Rev. F. Court- ney, Rector of St. James’ Church, to visit this city, and will hold services during four days, commencing to-day, when he will preach at St. James’ morning and evening, and at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Pai in the afternoon. SUNDAY REVERIES. Githooly listened to a sermon on churityon arecent Sunday, and was so much moved that when he came out he said: “J never was so stirred up about charity in all my life. V'll be blamed if I don’t——” “ Give 35 to the poor?” interrupted Jones. “ Not exact- ly. 1mean I feel lixe I want to go out beg- ging, such an effect did that sermon have on me.” 3 ‘A Missouri baby has been named Mazin Grace. A neighbor asked the niother how oi p.m. for preaching the Nov. 86, at 10:30 a.m. for the Word, at 3 p. m. pened to give the child such a name. got it out of the hynu-bLook.” ‘The aid she had never seen the name in any hyum-book she had used. “ You haven't !¥ said the mother of Mazin Grace; “why, don’t you recollect that familiar olt hyinn, commencing * Mazin Grace, how sweet the sound ?? ” ‘Tha clergymen in Brattleboro take turns in preaching to the inmates of the asytun for the insane, and one afternoon one of them ‘preached about the alabaster box of preciots ointment which was poured upon the Master's feet. As he! came out of chapel one of the patients came to bim and said, “ You have got us pretty well anoint- ed now,” and in explanation added that for two preceding Sundays ditferent clerzymen had preached on the same subject. The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon was once annoyed by three young men persisting in wearing their hats in church. He appeared for & time not to notice them, but proceeded to tell his audience of a visit he had paid to a Jew- ish synagog. ‘When I entered,’ he said, “Ttook off my hat, but was informed that the great mark of respect was to keep it on. I did so, though I assure you I felt very strange wearing my hatin a place ot wor- ship. And now, as I pat that mark of re- spect to the synagogz, may I ask those Jews in the gallery to contorm equally to our rules and kindly uncover their hvads.” Which was enough. Itseems that the rabbi teacher of a Sab- bath-school in Washington was anxious to secure a full attendance of his confirtnation class on the then approaching Shebuoth fea tival, and urgently requested that none be absent without good and sufficient cause. After the holiday the rabbi accosted a bright black-eyed little “daughter of Judah” with the inguiry, “Why were you not in synago; yesterday?” After twisting in her mout for some moments the end of a dublously clean apology for a pocket handkerchief, Rebecca, with downcast look, replied, “* Be- eause my hat was not clean, sir.” “Not clean?” said_ the rabbi, somewhat sternly. “Don’t you know that God cares not for outward apnearances. that He Inoks to that which is of infinitly more importanee—that which is within?” © But? quickly Inter- rupted the 7-year-old matron as a perfect sohition of the difficulty, “the lining was dirtytoo.”? And that settled the controversy without further argument. An itinerant preacher who was without a pulplt once organized aseries of services nb the Insane Asylum in Jacksonville. At his first service he was very much gratitied to observe the close attention that one of the patients gave to his sermon, and he went away and told some of his friends that he had found a very hopeful field of labor in the asylum, which had been neglected too long. The next Sunday he noticed the same intent expression on the face of the hopeful listener, and thought the man would soon be converted. Again the next Sunday the same man guve eager attention, convincing the cler- gytnan that he was not far from the Kingdom of Heaven. In the sermon the old story had been related about Hindao women casting their children into the Ganges. The minis- ter sought an opportunity at the close of service for a personal conversation with his eager listener. The patient grasped his hand warmly and sald: “I couldn’t help thinkmg while you were telling that story that it was agreat pity your mother didn’t chuck you into the river when you were a baby.” CHURCH SERVICES. : BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. Dr. Jackson, of Hyde Park, will preach in the University Place Church at 10:45 a.m. The Rev. J. T. Burhoo will preach @ -ser- mon to young people at 7:30 p. m. Subject: “ The Secret of Joseph's Success.” —The Rev. E. Wengreen will preach In the Sec- ond Swedish Church, Butterfleld street, near Thirty-first, morning and evening. —The Rev. E. C. Anderson, of Lake City, Minn., will preach this morning In the Michigan ‘Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street. No evening servict ~—The Rev. T. W. Goodspeed will preach this morning, and the Kev. George C. er this evening, in the First Church, corner of South Park gvenue and Thirty-tirst street. Evening subject: **Pantheism,”—the second of a series of sermons on ‘Isms, Old and New.” CHRISTIAN. she hay “Wh ‘4 neigh! —The Rev. A. L. Sabin will preach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty- fifth street, at 1] a. m. and 7:90 p.m. The Kev. J. W. Allen will preach in the South Side Church, corner rie avenue and Thirtieth street, morning and evening. —The Rev. C. H. Caton will preach in the Seo- ond Church, corner Oakley avenuc and Juckson street, this morning. "Subject: “The Kingdom of God Within Man.” “Dr. Matthewson will preach morning and evening in the Advent Church, No. 91 Green street. 3 —The Rev. J. H. Wright will preach in the Western Avenue Church, between Van Buren and Harrison streets, morning and evening. Evening subject: “* What {s Campbeilism?" CONGREGATIONAL. ‘The Rev. E. F. Williams will preach in the South Church, corner Drexel avenue and For- tleth street, morning and evening. —The Rev. Charles Hull Everest will preach in Plymouth Church, Michigan avenue, between Twenty-tifth and Twenty-sixth streets, at 10;30 a.m. and 7:30 & m —The Kev. F. A. Noble will preach in the Union Park Church, corner Ashiand avenue and West Washington street, at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 _p. m. the Rey. G. S. Dickinson, of Lewiston, Me., will preach this evening in Plymouth Church, Michigan avenue, between Twenty-ffth and ‘Twenty-sixth streets. —The Rey. G. H. Peeke will preach this mora ing in the Leavitt Street Church. Subject: “ Signs of Spirituul Power.” EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Church SS. Peter and Paul. corner ‘West Washington and Peoria streets; the Rt.-Rev. W. E. McLuren, S. T. D., Bishop; the Rev. J. H. Knowles, priest in charge. Holy Communton, 8 s,m. Choral Morning Prayer and celebration of the Holy Communion, 10:30 a. m. Suoday- school and obiliren's service, 3 p.m. Choral Even rayer, Ts yee ek St Stevens will preach morning and evening In St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron strects. —The Kev. i. A. Holland will officiate morn- ing and evening in ieinley Church, corner of | Michizan avenue ana Twenty-sixth street. Morning. pub jects “Home.” Evening subject: “Novel Reuding.”” 4 —The Kev. W. H. Knowlton will officiate morning and evening in St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev. John Hedman will officiate morn- ing and evening in St. Anszurius’ Courch, Sedg- wick street. ncar Chteazo avenue. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate morn- ing and evening in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. ~The Rev. Artbur Ritchie will oficiate morn- ing and evening in the Church af the Ascen~ sion, corner of North La Salle aud Elm streets. —There will be morning und evening services: to-duy in St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park nvenuc, between Forty-niath and Fiftlerb streets. —The Rey. B. F. Flectwon will oflicute morn~ ing and evening In St. Murk's Church, corner of Cottage Grveo averue end Thirty-sixth street. —The Rey. Edward Ritchie wil ciate murh= inz and evening in St. Stephen's Church, Jobn- won street, between Taylor and Twelfth. —The Kev. Luther Paniee wilt officiate morning and evening in Calvary Church, Ware ren avenue, between Oakley street and Western avenue, é —The Rev. T. N.. Morrison will ~ officiate morning -and evening in the Church of tho EElpiany, ‘Throop street, between Monroe and dans. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate morn- ing and xfternoon in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. : —The Rev. Jumes B. Thompson will officiate morning and evening inSt. Thomas" Chnrch, !n- diana avenue, between Twenty-uinth and Ture tieth streets. —T. B. Townsend will conduct the morning and Soe services at St. Luke's Mission, No. 967 olk street. if —The Rev. Daniel F. Smith will officiate this saolabsy. in the Good Shepherd 3tission, Lawn fale. —There will: be morning and evening services ip Emmanuel Church, Le Grange. - —There will be morning and evening services in St. Mark’s Church, Evanston. INDEFENDEST. ei ‘The Rev. George C. Needham, will- preach Ia the Chicugo Avenue Church, corner Ls Salle street, nt 10:45 2. m. and 7:8 p.m. Evening sub- ject: Sinners’ Mistakes,” illustrated bby large paintings selected from tho verics of Pilgrims” Progress pictures. . —Mr. Thomas ‘Necdham, Irish evangelist, sod others, will address the Gospel meeting in tho evening at Nos. 80 and & West Randoips street. LUTHERAN. S sfectaseee an Rey. William Azbmen: aefer wi reach in the Wicker Park Church, corner of Boyne and Le Moyne street, at 10:50 a. w. —There will be service in Trinity Church, core ner of Erie and Dearborn streets, at lla. m. METHODIST. 5 ‘The Rev. G. R. Wan Horne will preach fn the ‘Avenue Church, nur Thirty-second Michigan Arey a.m, and 72 pin. SMorning reet. at 10:3 aipjects “Compromising.” Fvening subject: + elity of an Orphan Girl.” aan gee Pranic SL. Bristol wiil preach in the Wabush Avenue Bae corner of Fourteenta, 4. et, at Ila. m. and 7:3) p. m.° Strethe Rev. J. Linebarger will preach in thaal Grant Place Chureh morning Evening subject: “The Special Love of ux) Father.” ‘es —The Kev. A. C. George will preach in Centenary Church, West Monroe street, between Aberdeen and Morgan, morning and evening. Evening subject: ‘The Poverty of Infidel! Confessed by Col. Ingersoll. and Contrasted wit! the Dying Testimony of Bishop Gilbert Haven.” ~The Rev. John Williamson: wilt - preach - morning and evening in the First Caureh, corner of Clar! ‘Washington streets. Morning aub- a ‘k and and eveningng: *